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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
consumer-driven health-care reform. Wrapping up the conference, representatives from each of several breakout meetings summarized their take on the implementation of a consumer-driven health-care system. The consensus seemed to be built... View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
Source: Delpixart There’s a general consensus that Washington is “broken.” But the reason politics doesn’t seem to deliver for citizens anymore may not involve who’s in the White House, which party controls Congress, or even any inherent... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
that provided economically efficient and environmentally sound energy sources. But due to political legacies, these markets fail to function in nearly every energy sector today, and nowhere are the costs of these failures clearer than in the case of oil. Lacking the... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- Research Event
In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?
new institutions supporting fact-based reportage and publication would spring up organically, or whether it was time to start looking to government to sponsor such activities. He explained that as a society, being able to form a consensus... View Details
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
the debate over a government-run plan into perspective. It is an issue related to health care reform, but it is not the only—or even most important—issue. Even if we reach consensus on this question, achieving meaningful reform will... View Details
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
both heartening and disturbing. “We were looking for 'Generally Accepted Conduct Principles.'"—Rohit Deshpandé The good news is that the researchers found broad consensus among the employees of the four multinationals who were asked... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
brokerage firm size and status, and recommendation boldness. The changes have a large and significant impact on the classification of trading signals and back-tests of three stylized facts: The profitability of trading signals, the profitability of changes in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
statistical analysis of consumer populations. In each period, reformers sought to extend methods for uncovering side effects from the clinic to the market, yet a fundamental lack of consensus on how to determine the scope and magnitude of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
authors describe how organizational biases arise from the different incentives, agendas, and blind spots of the various functional areas of a business, and how they compromise forecast accuracy and disrupt the supply chain process. They present a case study—the Leitax... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
case was taught, the general consensus was that the economics of the business were very shaky. Q: How so? A: There were two parts to the economics. You could say there was the part of the business that ran in the digital world and there... View Details
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
still hard for Japanese companies to adopt real strategies. There are huge pressures for imitation because of consensus decision making. But I think Japanese companies are definitely moving in the direction suggested in this book; it is a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
economist E.R.A. Seligman supported RPM as a legitimate tactic to protect small businesspeople and enhance non-price competition. The breakdown of legal and economic consensus regarding what constituted “unfair competition” allowed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
sellout. It's sacrilegious." Levy understood that his primary goal had to be bringing the various Lincoln Center constituents together to build consensus around continuation of the redevelopment project and making Lincoln Center... View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
go off on your own and create something different. With consensus decision making and shared responsibility for everything, nobody feels responsible. In our book, we discuss how Japanese companies need to adopt more business unit... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
you're able to work out some consensus with other people, whereas in business you don't usually need a majority in order to get things accomplished. You spend a lot of time on children's issues. Why? I really like young people. Here in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
young alumni whose stories follow: the chance to make good on making a difference. Andrew Murphy: At the World Wildlife Fund, building consensus at the intersection of conservation issues and global markets: “In places with sensitive... View Details
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
bridges, water, power and more? It’s not because they don’t aspire to. It’s because they lack the money and the expertise (in African cities) or because they can’t get to political consensus (in the United States)—or because there are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
there’s already a consensus in the country about how to tackle the challenges. So America is at a crossroads. We can revitalize the economy, or we can sit back and wait. Waiting will only raise the cost and difficulty of addressing some... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
running teaching programs, and conducting research. Most of these activities have had a very important component: developing our own faculty. I'm sure that whatever we do in the future in the global arena will have that same goal of broadening our own perspectives. The... View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
and measure methane emissions and leaks. We applaud Congress for coming to consensus on such a critical issue for our nation and the world, and for seeing that it’s also the greatest investment opportunity of our era. Christian Weeks (MBA... View Details